Fine Art Photographer
A Birthday Stroll 1/21/15 warm B-Day not 70 as I always wish for but 50’s is cool.
Bikes of Oly 4th and Washington May 6th 2015 still looking for reality but not to hard.
April 24th, waiting for the bus outside Bonjour Cupcakes after the Arts Walk very sweet things here but this night I had surpassed my sweetness level so I will come back. Shot digitally in B+W and RAW giving me the B+W and a color strange new newfangled camera. enjoy pjc
She arrives excited about the day The adventure starts with a snack and a video.
A Big Day planned, Dragon Boats and dancers, lunch chocolate treats, The Procession of the Species. More little events happening along the way.
As exciting as the day I planned Inara had her own ideas. In the car on the way over while her mom was talking to me I hear her shout “CityBus” as they passed the bus then “Grandpa’s taking me on the CityBus.” Off she runs up the Street to the CityBus stop.
There is always time to stop and seed the neighborhood.
On the CityBus at last she sits totally enveloped in the experience. Her level of focus is incredible. She misses nothing, she wants to know everything what is the square thing on the roof? Why everything it is wonderful as I explain things to her she soaks up the information like a sponge.
But it isn’t all learning sometimes you have to be a frog with chalk to draw on the walk.
The procession follows chocolate and a Mocha and playing with a stick and of course running. She runs big loops always staying near always listening. It is a joy.
The PA System was too loud at the Dragon Boats so we went to lunch. After lunch we went out walking slowly along the ports restaurants, galleries, shops. I ask her if she wants to go back to the boats, up to downtown and look at art get a treat and play? “Grandpa can we ride on the CityBus some more?” We spent the next hour riding around Olympia looking out the window and talking about all we saw. Kirsten met us at the Procession and we went for Thai food and a quick stop at the market home by 8:30 eleven and a half hours after we ran up the street to the CityBus Adventure and neither of us had a nap.
Photographic Art More of being 3iee
March 27th a stroll, still testing focus. Camera auto or manual or just in my mind. Focus escapes me. Digital auto here close in seems good.
Walking home from school, a brief chat, cameras and class one of them took. Diggie D-3100 Nikon. Focus F 2.5 105 mm manual one of the sharpest lens Nikon has made. But not here, not on “Auto” the camera works well when using auto lens but unless you have 20-20 vision the D-3100 diopter only goes to +.5 my eyes want +2. Ten feet away and they are not quite sharp. Focus! Stress! Distraction over to B+H diopters available for D-3100 models that don’t have built in Diopter, mine has built in diopter. Damn! Focus coffee and phone calls.
This Tulip shot with Auto Focus Nikon 28mm-105 macro Zoom. But in the interest of selling more product and upgrades this older Nikon lens doesn’t talk to the D-3100 so the Auto Focus doesn’t work. Manual focus on an auto lens has a small turn radius and with the wrong diopter well focus escapes me and the D-3100. I remember when Nikon was about great images not more plastic product to push. Hell you can fix it later in PS. Let Artificial Intelligence do the creating for you. Focus! Stress! It ain’t me babe.
More students more 105 not quite sharp but with Modern Emotion/creativity free software well it is Goodnuff. The new American standard GOODNUFF! I have a lot of trouble with good enough. But I am not comfortable with my smartphone making my life decisions. Wait wait I don’t have a smart phone. The idea of making ones own choices is a subversive idea, guess I won’t be on a reality TV show.
Even my excavator operator isn’t sharp but that could be how fast she moves or the different focus modes. More tests to do another stroll downtown, new bus pass lunch more coffee. Focus! Stress! Relief is spelled Nikon F 1967 B+W film. enjoy pjc
Photographic Art B+W Chicago Union Station 1/4sec F-8 28mm lens 1998 first Amtrak cross country adventure.